Aston Martin Design Director to Race the Vantage GT4

The Vantage GT4 is to have its maiden race in the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge of Great Britain on August 21, and Aston Martin’s Design Director, Marek Reichman, will be driving it. Reichman, who is a regular competitor in historic club racing, will be accompanied by Aston Martin Engineering Manager, Chris Porritt, an experienced GT4 racer himself.

“The design team has been closely involved in the design of all our race cars, from the works LMP1 prototype to the Vantage GT4, but I’ve always longed to get even more closely involved and the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge provides the perfect introduction to GT4 racing for me,” Reichman said.

The Aston Martin GT4 Challenge of Great Britain is a one-make series exclusively for owners of the Vantage GT4 and the Vantage N24.

“Most of my GT4 experience with Aston Martin has been at the Nürburgring, but Oulton Park is my home track and while I’ve raced my own cars there many times, I’ve never had the opportunity in an Aston Martin. The standard of racing in the series so far has been extremely high so Marek and I will have our work cut out to keep up with the front runners,” said Porritt.

The Aston Martin Vantage GT4 is a production-based race car eligible for all FIA GT4 races as well as other race series around the world. 2010 successes to date include class wins in the Dubai, Nürburgring and Spa 24 Hours, numerous class wins in the Nürburgring VLN endurance series and four wins out of six in the FIA GT4 European Cup.